Telerik blogs
  • Web ASP.NET AJAX

    Memory Leaks and Memory Consumption in web applications (Part 1)

    This post is number one in a three part series about memory consumption for web applications in general. Since the Web 2.0 era, Web Applications have changed for the better. They provide more functionality, better usability and improved performance. However this tendency led to increased complexity. It is not unusual for a user to stay on a single page for hours without leaving. The browser would just poll data from the server through Ajax requests and display it in even more interesting manners. Therefore it is no wonder that web applications have become hungrier for resources and the browsers couldn’t...
  • Web ASP.NET AJAX

    Using the Resize and Drag extender built into the ASP.NET AJAX controls

    The development for both desktop and mobile browsers has always been a difficult task, often an impossible one. To ease the process, we have prepared a couple of extenders, thus delivering to the developers unified methods to implement solutions for the mobile web platforms. In addition to the previously introduced TouchScrollExtender in Q3 2010, we present to you another member of the family. The ResizeExtender is a small client-side only control that enables resize and drag functionality on an HTML element in all browsers regardless if they are desktop or mobile (except the browsers that lack the needed desktop or touch events...
    April 14, 2011
  • Release

    First Telerik AJAX and MVC Q1 2011 service packs

    A month after the official Q1 2011 release of our AJAX and MVC components, I would like to announce the immediate availability of the first maintenance packs for both product bundles and appoint the most important bullets in them. See the next two paragraphs for details: AJAX Q1 2011 SP1 Release Notes | Demos | Documentation Highlights Updated the internally used jQuery to 1.5.2 Addressed reported IE 9 issues for all components Grid - Updated the grid's visual designer to provide support for grouping and client settings; Support for default font setting when exporting RadGrid to PDF RibbonBar - Added RadRibbonBar>RibbonBarMenuItem>NavigateUrl property SiteMap - All SiteMap nodes...
    April 14, 2011
  • Release

    Celebrate the 1st birthday of VS 2010

    Who can believe that an year has already passed since the first release of Visual Studio 2010? Lots of new installments accompanied the initial year of VS 2010 adoption (see Somasegar's blog post for more details) which made the MS developer community excited and happier like never before! And now, during the MIX 2011 conference which currently takes place in Las Vegas (Telerik is attending it, I encourage you to visit our booth to see a quick demo of the new WP7 control), there is a bunch of other thrilling goodies announced: First Preview of IE 10 ASP.NET MVC 3 tools update that delivers...
    April 13, 2011
  • Release

    Q2 2011 Telerik AJAX and MVC Roadmaps

    A couple of weeks after the official Q1 2011 bits were out, there were people who started to ask: "Hey, what about your future plans for web development? I am impatient to know what you guys will be cooking for the summer release..". Well, with no further delay I am presenting you our AJAX and MVC Q2 2011 plans to feed your curiosity :) Telerik AJAX controls Q2 2011 Roadmap http://www.telerik.com/products/aspnet-ajax/whats-new/roadmap.aspx Focal points: Two new controls - image editor and web alert 4 new skins (Transparent + 3 Office2010 variations) Mobile and accessibility improvements HTML5 file API support for AsyncUpload, HTML5 input types rendering...
    April 07, 2011